34th New York Infantry

The 34th New York Infantry, the Thirty-Fourth Regiment N.Y.S.V., commanded by Colonel James A. Suiter, enlisted under President Lincoln's April 15, 1861, call for 75,000 men to serve two years, entered state service on May 1, 1861, entered United States service on June 15, 1861, and mustered out on June 30, 1863. In the Army of the Potomac it served in the First Brigade, Second Division, Second Corps. At 7:30 on the morning of September 17, 1862, it left camp near Keedysville, crossed Antietam Creek, marched west into the East Woods, emerged on the extreme left of the brigade line, and soon became heavily engaged with Confederate forces to its front. After crossing an open field and the Hagerstown Pike, it entered the West Woods, with its line extending north and south of the Dunkard Church. Because its left was unprotected and in danger of being enveloped, the regiment made a hasty retreat and reformed near the East Woods with its organization intact. In a very brief time it lost 43 killed and 74 wounded, with the killed amounting to 13 percent of all engaged on that field. The regiment's dead on that field were remembered by surviving comrades, aided by Herkimer County and the State of New York, and its other important engagements included Edward's Ferry, Glendale, the Siege of Yorktown, Malvern Hill, Fair Oaks first and second days, Savage Station, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.

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